It was possible, without going around the hill, to pass along the river through the Porticus AEmilia, which would shorten the road considerably.
"I am old," said Chilo, when they went under the Colonnade; "at times I suffer effacement of memory.

Yes, though our Christ was betrayed by one of his disciples, the name of the traitor I cannot recall at this moment--" "Judas, lord, who hanged himself," answered Quartus, wondering a little in his soul how it was possible to forget that name.
"Oh, yes--Judas! I thank thee," said Chilo.
And they went on some time in silence.

When they came to the Emporium, which was closed, they passed it, and going around the storehouse, from which grain was distributed to the populace, they turned toward the left, to houses which stretched along the Via Ostiensis, up to the Mons Testaceus and the Forum Pistorium.

There they halted before a wooden building, from the interior of which came the noise of millstones.
Quartus went in; but Chilo, who did not like to show himself to large numbers of people, and was in continual dread that some fate might bring him to meet Glaucus, remained outside.
"I am curious about that Hercules who serves in a mill," said he to himself, looking at the brightly shining moon.

"If he is a scoundrel and a wise man, he will cost me something; if a virtuous Christian and dull, he will do what I want without money." Further meditation was interrupted by the return of Quartus, who issued from the building with a second man, wearing only a tunic called "exomis," cut in such fashion that the right arm and right breast were exposed.